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Legal memories and amnesias in America's rhetorical culture

Author: Marouf Arif Hasian
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000.
Series: Polemics series.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Marouf Arif Hasian
ISBN: 0813366011 9780813366012
OCLC Number: 42690249
Description: xii, 216 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: understanding the importance of critical legal rhetorics --
Patriots, traitors, and civic virtue: redefining the American character in the case of Major André --
Sarah Roberts, Lemuel Shaw, and the legal invention of the "separate but equal" doctrine --
Jurisprudence as performance: John Brown's enactment of natural law at Harper's Ferry --
"Typhoid Mary," bacteriology, and progressive law courts --
Judicial rhetoric in a fragmentary world: "character" and storytelling in the Leo Frank case --
Judging the perpetrators of the Holocaust: the crisis of legal representation --
"Sins of the fathers": revisiting the Rosewood affair --
Conclusion: future directions for critical legal rhetorical studies.
Series Title: Polemics series.
Responsibility: Marouf Hasian, Jr.
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